no, not at all. not at all. this is still in some ways, you know, a very closed environment. so we are the only people, in addition to the families, the local authorities, the children s guardian from the court advisory service cafcass, who will be in the court centre. if participants know that reporters are there, might it somehow distort the legal process? well, you would think that s a possibility. and unfortunately we haven t done a controlled experiment with this and spent time in these courts beforehand to judge whether it s different. but certainly when it comes to disturbing the normal process of the court, it doesn t seem like our presence has had that kind of impact. we know that there won t be any audio or filming in these family courts, but more generally, is the legal system opening up to broadcasters? well, certainly there s now the broadcasting of sentencing in criminal cases,
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